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The Mission:
Solving Hunger
Maryland Hunger Solutions seeks to end hunger, improve nutrition, and
promote the well-being of Marylanders in need by spreading best practices
through education, advocacy, outreach, and collaboration.
Founded by the Food Research and
Action Center (FRAC) in 2007, Maryland
Hunger Solutions works to create a state
free of hunger and poverty and their ill
effects. Its approach is based on fully
utilizing and improving federal nutrition
programs so that all Marylanders in need
are receiving the assistance for which
they are eligible, while also working
to transform the economic and social
policies that keep people mired in
poverty, because without poverty, hunger
will largely cease to be a problem.
Maryland Hunger Solutions promotes the
adoption of best practices to increase
participation, to ensure that the federal
nutrition programs are fully implemented,
to research and analyze the extent
of hunger and food hardship, to raise
awareness through education and
outreach, and to advocate for needed
policy changes to better serve those in
need.
The Solution:
Maximizing Nutrition
Program Benefits
The solution to hunger in Maryland involves a combination of making federal
nutrition programs work as intended, ensuring that all eligible people are
participating, and spearheading other changes to ensure that access to
healthy, affordable food is universal.
When struggling families, senior citizens,
and other people in need receive
benefits under food stamps/SNAP (the
Food Supplement Program), they can
use normal commercial channels to
purchase food for themselves and their
dependents.
When pregnant women, infants and
young children receive Women, Infants,
and Children (WIC) program benefits,
they are less hungry and better
nourished.
When students receive school breakfasts
and school lunches, they become well-
nourished, healthier, and learn better.
When children whose parents’ jobs
require them to work long hours receive
suppers at their after-school care centers,
they no longer go to bed with empty
stomachs.
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